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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
Norman Daniels,Michael Walzer +1 more
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Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.Abstract:
that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.read more
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Morally Evaluating Human Smuggling: The Case of Migration to Europe
Eamon Aloyo,Eugenio Cusumano +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that human smuggling is morally permissible under some conditions even if it is illegal and that human trafficking, by contrast, is immoral and should be illegal and conclude that moral conditions for permissible human smuggling are sometimes being met on the route from Africa to Europe (but are all too often grossly violated).
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Undocumented Immigrants and Citizenship: Universal Values in a World of Nation-States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the public values at stake in the U.S. debates over the appropriate public policy response to undocumented or unauthorized immigration and highlight the paradox involved in trying to apply universal human rights values in a world of discrete and bounded nation-states.
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Equity in bulk water allocation: the case of the Mahaweli Ganga Development Project in Sri Lanka
Pearly Wong,Srikantha Herath +1 more
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Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
TL;DR: Bosniak and Shachar as discussed by the authors argue that while these authors identify important new challenges and offer innovative proposals, they only take us part of the way toward meeting the challenge of articulating citizenships ethical significance and the relationship between our national and global obligations.